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Kevin J. Bowers
Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Publications - 99
Citations - 8348
Kevin J. Bowers is an academic researcher from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Magnetic reconnection. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 99 publications receiving 7197 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin J. Bowers include D. E. Shaw Research & University of California, Berkeley.
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Scalable algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations on commodity clusters
Kevin J. Bowers,Edmond Chow,Huafeng Xu,Ron O. Dror,Michael P. Eastwood,Brent A. Gregersen,John L. Klepeis,István Kolossváry,Mark A. Moraes,Federico D. Sacerdoti,John K. Salmon,Yibing Shan,David E. Shaw +12 more
TL;DR: This work presents several new algorithms and implementation techniques that significantly accelerate parallel MD simulations compared with current state-of-the-art codes, including a novel parallel decomposition method and message-passing techniques that reduce communication requirements, as well as novel communication primitives that further reduce communication time.
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Anton, a special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulation
David E. Shaw,Martin M. Deneroff,Ron O. Dror,Jeffrey S. Kuskin,Richard H. Larson,John K. Salmon,Cliff Young,Brannon Batson,Kevin J. Bowers,Jack C. Chao,Michael P. Eastwood,Joseph Gagliardo,J. P. Grossman,C. Richard Ho,Douglas J. Ierardi,István Kolossváry,John L. Klepeis,Timothy Layman,Christine McLeavey,Mark A. Moraes,Rolf Mueller,Edward C. Priest,Yibing Shan,Jochen Spengler,Michael Theobald,Brian Towles,Stanley C. Wang +26 more
TL;DR: A massively parallel machine called Anton is described, which should be capable of executing millisecond-scale classical MD simulations of such biomolecular systems and has been designed to use both novel parallel algorithms and special-purpose logic to dramatically accelerate those calculations that dominate the time required for a typical MD simulation.
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Role of electron physics in the development of turbulent magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas
William Daughton,Vadim Roytershteyn,Homa Karimabadi,Lin Yin,Brian J. Albright,B. Bergen,Kevin J. Bowers +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, Petaflop-scale simulations of the evolution of turbulent magnetic reconnection in a three-dimensional plasma indicate that it proceeds in a way that is dramatically different from classical theory.
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Ultrahigh performance three-dimensional electromagnetic relativistic kinetic plasma simulationa)
TL;DR: VPIC has enabled previously intractable simulations in numerous areas of plasma physics, including magnetic reconnection and laser plasma interactions; next generation supercomputers like Roadrunner will enable further advances.
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Millisecond-scale molecular dynamics simulations on Anton
David E. Shaw,Ron O. Dror,John K. Salmon,J. P. Grossman,Kenneth M. Mackenzie,Joseph A. Bank,Cliff Young,Martin M. Deneroff,Brannon Batson,Kevin J. Bowers,Edmond Chow,Michael P. Eastwood,Douglas J. Ierardi,John L. Klepeis,Jeffrey S. Kuskin,Richard H. Larson,Kresten Lindorff-Larsen,Paul Maragakis,Mark A. Moraes,Stefano Piana,Yibing Shan,Brian Towles +21 more
TL;DR: Anton's performance when executing actual MD simulations whose accuracy has been validated against both existing MD software and experimental observations is reported, allowing the observation of aspects of protein dynamics that were previously inaccessible to both computational and experimental study.